October 04, 2008

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Pegged to a Times story that adds nothing to the theory that Obama and Bill Ayers were particularly close, the McCain camp is focusing on that association again today, in an attempt to move the conversation beyond the economic issues on which Obama looks to spend the last month of the race.

"There's been a lot of interest in what I read lately. Well, I was reading my copy of today’s New York Times and I was really interested to read about Barack’s friends from Chicago. Turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man who, according to The New York Times, was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol,'" Palin said today, according to a transcript distributed by the campaign. "These are the same guys who think patriotism is paying higher taxes. This is not a man who sees America as you and I do — as the greatest force for good in the world.

"This is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country," Palin concluded, in the hardest shot of the statement.

The McCain camp also has a second statement out, responding to Obama's attack on McCain's health care plan as "radical."

"On a day when new reports have surfaced about Barack Obama's long association with a domestic terrorist, our Democratic opponent had the audacity to call John McCain's health care plan 'radical.' The American people know radical when they hear it, and John McCain is not the candidate in this election they should be concerned about," said spokesman Tucker Bounds.

Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan responded:

Governor Palin’s comments, while offensive, are not surprising, given the McCain campaign’s statement this morning that they would be launching Swift boat-like attacks in hopes of deflecting attention from the nation’s economic ills. In fact, the very newspaper story Governor Palin cited in hurling her shameless attack made clear that Senator Obama is not close to Bill Ayers, much less "pals," and that he has strongly condemned the despicable acts Ayers committed 40 years ago, when Obama was eight. What’s clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy.

"Pal around with terrorists!!" What is wrong with these people? Oh wait I forgot all that the Republican ticket has to offer is fear not solutions to the economic crisis or the lack of healthcare or ending the war in Iraq. They should change their slogan Fear First Country Last

Listen up, Ben. If you and your friends at Politico don't call this crap out as the desperate garbage that it is, then you are no worse than the media outlets that allowed the swiftboaters charges to go out unedited.
Yes, it is the Obama campaign's job to fight the smears, but if you don't comment then you are simply a tool to be manipulated.

Let a top Obama surrogate call Palin a liar and an idiot (she is) and McCain radical for his ties to the Keating 5 that almost sank America's financial system before.
Republicans this is so every 4 years ago... no solutions so we must attack.
Obama should release a tough a woman surrogate on Palin and talk about all her recent bumblings and her scandal that she is refusing to participate with in her beloved Alaska. E'ffn ridiculous.
Obama|Biden '08 and like it!

Here's how stupid Palin's statement is: she said she was reading the NYT. Did she just start reading? Couric asked her what she read and she didn't give an answer.
THEN, the McCain campaign says " there is new information" about Pbama and Ayers. What is new about this?
Here's the problem: people are losing jobs. People are losing their homes. Gas prices remain high. Food prices are higher. Personal debt is sky high. The Iraq war is still unpopular. But all they want to talk about (now that the "bailout" ended the economic crisis), is a recycled attempt to smear Obama.
His campaign is disgusting. He will do anything to win.

It didn't take long to go negative after the VP debate had no effect huh? Odd they would use this when it didn't work in the past...has the McCain camp run out of ideas? Maybe they should actually address issues if they think have superior positions...makes me wonder why they don't honestly...

If they have anything to say the people want to hear or believe about themselves, now is the time to say it.
For them to talk bad about Obama is not getting my vote. They need to talk about themselves so maybe I would like their ideas better.
Being an attack person does not endear them to me.

Excuse me, did Sarah Palin basically just say that Obama hates America? "This is not a man who sees America as you and I do - as the greatest force for good in the world. This is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country." That's beyond the pale.

Is that the best they can do? "Watch out for the scary negro...he's more dangerous than he looks."
I'm of the opinion that anyone foolish enough to be supporting Team McPalin, a lot of whom probably voted for W not once, but twice are lucky that they don't have their right to vote suspended for this election for doing such a crap job of voting last time.
If I'd voted for the current President, I would be ashamed, seriously doubt my own judgment and recuse myself from the election process as penance for having contributed to the near destruction of this country's economy and moral standing in the world.

If she had actually read the article, she would see that it proves there are very few points of connection between Ayers and Obama, that they disagree on a number of issues, that Obama has denounced Ayers' terrorist past, and that because of their connections to the U of Chicago and Illinois politics, their paths inevitably crossed. That's it. Obama is no radical, despite every effort to claim he is.

Time to start talking about drug dealers and addicts... Cindy McCain and her prescription drug felonies, and Sarah Palin and her Alaskan Separatist movement. The question I ask is... "If she is a separatist is she even capable of being vp?"

First, I find it hard to believe that Palin, can I call you Sarah, has her own copy of the NY Times. Second, I don't see why the Times would place this on page A1 above the fold when there was really no new information in the article. Finally, people should readily understand that John McCain's health care plan is a tax increase. You don't have to raise the rate to increase taxes. Taxes are also increased when you take away tax benefits as is the case with McCain's plan to tax employee payroll payments for health insurance.

There is no fool like an old fool. McCain has lost all his sense when he picked Palin as his running mate. Palin is unqualified to be Vice President and McCain is unqualified to lead this country. Vote for Hope, Vote Obama/Biden, at least we will have a chance at recovery under their administration.

is this the "honorable" campaign mccain bragged about running? i'm dissappointed in the so-called maverick hero. i'm an independent and he has lost my vote by NOT talking about healthcare or closing the gap between those with the most and those with the least.

It doesnt concern me Laura, because its a bogus claim. Ayers is a professor at the University of Chicago, if people were so concerned about his actions, they wouldnt allow him to poison the youth of the nation. Its weird how Republicans want to act like Barack Obama himself was responsible for Ayers crimes. Mccain on the other hand, WAS A MEMBER OF THE KEATING 5.

Hahaha, Republicans are so ****ed if they are seriously trying to connect Obama to Ayers. It's so disingenuous that conservatives on the internet can only say "bb..bb..bbut...bbut THEY HAVE INFREQUENT INTERACTIONS!! SURELY THAT MEANS SOMETHING!!!"
hahaha, by all means, waste money and time on this, repubs.

Laura -- Before you start parroting the talking points Palin has on her notecards, why don't read the NYT article first? The McCain campaign is really putting the final nails in its own coffin with this line of attack.

The third hail mary pass. The first was Sarah Palin and she fumbled. The second was the suspension of the campaign and that floped. Now it is the AWR (Ayers, Wright and Rezco) hail mary pass. Hilary tried Rezco but not hard enough. Now these guys are desperate to do anything to save McCain. It is the third missle in their arsenal and after this one there will be one more.

This rabid pitbull will say whatever they tell her to. Just last week they were attacking the Times as "in the tank" for Obama. And a few days ago, Palin couldn't list a single news source that she read.

The republicans and John McCain with the help of News Corp's Rupert Murdock ( Fox News, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the racist crowd) hoping the people would forget the republicans have just bankrupted this country. They will try to smear the senator by associating him with William Ayers and the charity organization whose head was a republican. A man who did something when Barack was eight years old. These people must think we are really stupid. What must come to light is that the republicans are a bunch of crooks and John McCain, along with his buddy Phil Grahamm, has had his hands in every major financial crisis that has rippled this country - from the big S&L corruption crisis (Keating five anyone?)to this current one where he was the chief deregulator. Does John McCain really want to go there? McCain on his 70th birthday was on a boat off Montenegro with Anne Hathaway and her criminal boyfriend with a "few ladies." Also, does McCain want the fact to come out that he has covered his wife's drug use and that she stole from her own "charity."
And of course that famous plane trip with the female lobbyist.

Yeah, I was a Hillary supporter considering McCain, but this sealed it; I'm voting for Obama-Biden. I have too many problems to listen to this absurd name-calling when I can flip to the Obama rally and listen to actual ideas. How will their plans affect my life, that's what we need to be asking ourselves.

Keep talkin' Tucker and Sarah, Obama was 8 when this stuff happened, but I forgot you know those good ol' republicans. You know the republicans who put their country first, first in job loss, first in bankruptcy, first in foreclosures, first in debt. Yeap, those republicans sure have a lot of firsts from the past 8 years.

"Is that the best they can do? "Watch out for the scary negro...he's more dangerous than he looks." I'm of the opinion that anyone foolish enough to be supporting Team McPalin, a lot of whom probably voted for W not once, but twice are lucky that they don't have their right to vote suspended for this election for doing such a crap job of voting last time. If I'd voted for the current President, I would be ashamed, seriously doubt my own judgment and recuse myself from the election process as penance for having contributed to the near destruction of this country's economy and moral standing in the world." Poste by dkan
Except that many people who voted Republican in the past are now voting for Barack Obama. Such as myself. These partisan comments are not helpful to the Obama campaign. Many past Republicans are fighting hard for the Obama presidency. Many people who, in the past voted with the GOP, now see a remarkable candidate in Obama. I think Sarah Palin is an idiot and represents the worst of America. A politician who benefits greatly from tax payer money but is not paying her fair share. She (and McCain) represent all that has ruined the party of Lincoln, they are isolationist, fear-mongering, war-mongering, narrow minded, fools that will stop at nothing to win. Too bad for them, Obama will win.

Apparently Sarah can't read well because the NY Times Article I read made it pretty doggone clear that Obama and Ayers do not associate and that their closest association was being on the same Anneburg Foundation committee (how radical?!) for (gasp!) school reform.
Governor Palin is not only an agressively stupid lightweight -- she's an agressive liar with not a lick of integrity. A virulent combination that requires an agressive response. She deserves whatever bad things come her way.

I've seen statements that Todd Palin belonged to a group pushing for Alaska to secede from the nation. Is this true? If it is, it seems like Sarahs ties to an anti-American agenda should be scrutinized. And maybe McCain is also worthy of doubt as he was held captive by anti-American forces for FIVE years. (Stockholm syndrome anyone?) If you think these ideas are ridiculous, you should examine your own words as you continuously repeat your own bizarre assertions about Obama.

Republicans cant win on issues, they never can, they just try to win on smears.
Sarah Palin has nothing to offer this country nor does John McCain.
Sarah Palin is a threat to this country she knows nothing the issues, just what her handlers tell her to say.

If you are going to give this crap a space on your blog at least print the response from Obama.
On a day after we learned that America lost three-quarters of a million jobs this year and a week after our financial system teetered on the brink of collapse, John McCain and his campaign have announced that they want to ?turn the page? on the economic crisis facing working families and spend the last month of this election launching dishonest, dishonorable character attacks against Barack Obama. We understand that it?s not easy for John McCain to defend the worst economic record of our lifetime, but he will have to explain to the people struggling to pay their bills and stay in their homes why he would rather spend his time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy.

Really! That's why she and her husband belong to a recaist separatist movement up there in Alaska. The movement does not recognize the US government and they want to print their own currency while collecting an arsenal of weapons ( Tim McVeigh anyone?)do the republicans want to bring this tired smear campaigh again? The republicans and John McCain with the help of News Corp's Rupert Murdock ( Fox News, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the racist crowd) hoping the people would forget the republicans have just bankrupted this country. They will try to smear the senator by associating him with William Ayers and the charity organization whose head was a republican. A man who did something when Barack was eight years old. These people must think we are really stupid. What must come to light is that the republicans are a bunch of crooks and John McCain, along with his buddy Phil Grahamm, has had his hands in every major financial crisis that has rippled this country - from the big S&L corruption crisis (Keating five anyone?)to this current one where he was the chief deregulator. Does John McCain really want to go there? McCain on his 70th birthday was on a boat off Montenegro with Anne Hathaway and her criminal boyfriend with a "few ladies." Also, does McCain want the fact to come out that he has covered his wife's drug use and that she stole from her own "charity."
And of course that famous plane trip with the female lobbyist.

...when will we see the Willie Horton ad? the efficacy of this line of attacks bewilders me and betrays his 2000 trope which worked. this "strategy" is a well worn path and doesn't articulate a platform. That's John's biggest challenge over these next thirty days; conveying a comprehensive PLAN to the people. Fire Rick Davis a.s.a.p. Statue of Liberty play-time!

McCain, Palin and their entire campaign machine are a disgrace to our country. How cowardly to run a campaign based on smears and not on issues. I would bet money that this tactic will overhwhelmingly lose the independant voters.

It would be more accurate to say that the McCain people do not see America the way most of us do. Like Bush, they think of the country as "theirs" (as in "my personal property... the rest of you are just visiting"), while most of us think of the country as "ours".

Dear Sarah:
I have had enough of YOU.
Don't you ever try to tell ME what I believe or don't believe. I see you for what you are. A moderately education
woman from Alaska. A woman who puts herself before family. A woman who uses "cuteness and winking" as a means to convince people you are real when in fact you are quite the opposite.
You can try to say anything you want with your winks and slang and self perceived smartassedness but it will NEVER FLY with those of us who can think for ourselves.
You would do well to look in the mirror and ask yourself what kind of woman allows themselves to be pimped to the public at ANY cost, including yourself and your children.
Now, if you want to pretend Obama is not as interested in doing the best for our Country you go right ahead but don't EVER try to drag ME into it with you.

WHEN YOU CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN.NO NEED TO USE BAD LANGUAGE.BY THE WAY DIDN'T MICHAEL VICK USE PIT BULLS? WHERE DID THAT GET HIM? I THINK I HEARD HE REALIZED HE WAS WRONG.IF HE DID GOOD FOR HIM.

"Listen to you people. Is your adoration of Obama so great that it doesn't concern you that he pals around with unrepentant terrorists?" Laura, Laura, Laura. Where does it say he "pals around" with him? And since when do people like you grab the NYT and use it as evidence. Aren't they "in the tank" for Obama?

I see all these accusations being thrown around about Obama, and no one has any proof of any of it. If you just want to vote for McCain then do that, but stop throwing all these terrorist insults around. If there is going to be a discussion, lets talk about something with hard facts that is actually going to matter. This schoolyard name calling is getting us nowhere. For Palin to say I see America the way she does is foolish and immature. I have no clue how she sees America, does that make me a terrorists? Does that make me unpatriotic? I don't see John McCain as the next coming either, just because he was a prisoner of war, does that make him right all the time? does that make him any more patriotic than anyone else on the street? not in my estimation, he served with alot of other heroic people, does that make them the best people to become president of the United States?
I don't think so..

Why is anyone listening to this woman? SHe has proven time & time again that she knows nothing. McCain & Palin can't win by coming up with any solutions to issues, so they will try to win by using smear tactics against "associates" of Obama's. Desperate move that will fail miserably yet again.

Yeah, not like he's married to someone who actually wanted to secede from the union or anything. Are we going to get into Jermiah Wright versus the Witchhunter? If these were new attacks it might matter, but Obama has already survived these slurs, and come out on top.
It's the economy, stupid.

McCain already hits below the belt. Now, he's taking the gloves off to hit below the belt?
This guy and his sidekick Sarah are just plain, old-way sleaze.
Remember, McCain's fighter jet crashed in Vietnam because the pilot was McCain, not becauise he wqas a hero.
And, Sarah `Right Wing America's Sweetheart' Palin couldn't even direct a taxi cab across town in Washington.
This time around, Barack, please hit back. It doesn't have to be below the belt. Just hard. Knock an tottering old man off his feet.

What about McCain making over 30 propaganda videos for the vietcong? What about McCain giving the vietcong military secrets? What about McCain having his military records classified FOREVER? McCain's dirty dirty dirty.

The republicans and John McCain with the help of News Corp's Rupert Murdock ( Fox News, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the racist crowd) hoping the people would forget the republicans have just bankrupted this country. They will try to smear the senator by associating him with William Ayers and the charity organization whose head was a republican. A man who did something when Barack was eight years old. These people must think we are really stupid. What must come to light is that the republicans are a bunch of crooks and John McCain, along with his buddy Phil Grahamm, has had his hands in every major financial crisis that has rippled this country - from the big S&L corruption crisis (Keating five anyone?)to this current one where he was the chief deregulator. Does John McCain really want to go there? McCain on his 70th birthday was on a boat off Montenegro with Anne Hathaway and her criminal boyfriend with a "few ladies." Also, does McCain want the fact to come out that he has covered his wife's drug use and that she stole from her own "charity."
And of course that famous plane trip with the female lobbyist.

If any of you would pull your heads out of BHO's butt, then you would know there are multiple tiers of the Ayers and Obama relationship. YES, Obama was only 8 at the time BUT, as of 9-10-2001, he was boasting he did not do enough to blow up the Pentagon. If you would research instead of taking the Messiah's word for it, you would know these two are VERY connected and YES, that is a connection to someone who TODAY, still hates this country.

Posted By: Silly dems, do some research | October 04, 2008 at 03:57 PM

Sarah's just warming up. She's really into all the power and attention, intocicated with her own fantasies of herself and her wildly imagined future presidency. Too ban it's coming to an end in 30 days, when she'll have to go back home and deal with the investigation of her misdeeds as governor, and some of Todd's as well...

THIS IS A NEW LOW.IF I HAD BEEN THINKING ABOUT VOTING DEM. THAT WOULD HAVE SUNK THE VOTE. AFTER READING ALL THAT ABOUT WRIGHT,REZKO AND AYERS, I BELIEVE IN OBAMA AND HIS INTELLIGENCE. MCCAIN IS NOT PERFECT, BESIDES DID NOT SEE IN THE SUPER MARKET THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER, HEADLINE, PALIN AND HER AFFAIR. AM REALLY TIRED OF HER GETTING A FREE PASS WHEN EVERYONE ELSE HAS BEEN VETTED AND STOMPED. KEATING FIVE--AFFAIRS--LOWEST IN CLASS--CRASHED PLANES--HIS AFFAIRS--THAT IS NOT CAMPAIGNED. SARAH PALIN YOU HAVE SUNK TO A NEW LOW AND THOSE WERE PRETTY STRONG WORDS, WHEN AYERS HAPPENED BACK IN THE VIETNAM DAYS, OBAMA WAS AROUND 5/6 OLD.

McCain abandoned moderation in the pursuit of nomination and embraced extremism in the pursuit of election. Palin has extreme connections from her ties with the Alaska Independence Party and her making a non partisan election for mayor partisan by injecting gun control and the abortion issue. The old McCain criticized Robertson and Falwell in 2000 and now welcomes the support of religious extremists. And then there's the campaign staff which combines an alumni list from K Street lobbyists and the Bush (and Rove) campaigns. If McCain is a maverick, it's only because he has had another skin surgery to remove the cancer of the Bush brand.

And for those saying this is baseless, DO YOUR RESEARCH! And if you see they are ONLY neighbors as Obama once stated, living in the same neighborhood, that is a LIE. DO YOUR RESEARCH...and not from just the Obama website.

This move by the McCain camp was inevitable. Myself and many others predicted that the McCain camp would have no choice but to try and smear Obama's character, because they lost on every other issue in this race.
What Obama has to do is first reiterate his disapproval and disassociation with ayers. Then he has to accuse McCain of playing smear politics instead of focusing on the hardships middle class americans are facing today.

they had nothing more on their plate to argue on that had any credibility so we're back to non-issues and finger-pointing for false controversies. sarah if you had READ the nytimes you'd see the article that said that obama and ayers were not close. what's next, an association with al capone because he was from chicago too? just say obama and the word "terrorist" in the same sentence in you think you've got it made. i expected better than this even from palin and mccain.

Note that Gov. Palin refers to "my copy" of the NYT as if to somehow establish that she is a regular reader or perhaps even a subscriber. I doubt that she has ever even perused the NYT, much less read it. Also note her inappropriately familiar reference to Sen. Obama as Barack. Even Sen. McCain doesn't do that. Is this an effort to insinuate familiarity with a man she has never even met? Or is it intended to be a subtle (perhaps racist) put down?

That's a pretty misleading stump speech. According to the NYTimes article Obama hardly knew Bill Ayers, and in all likelihood Obama was probably unaware of Ayers controversial past while they were serving on the Education Board.

Lets not forget in a Palin/McCain administration we will all be saved by Sarah from witches.
She ought to really go over her list of "friends and associates" before she starts flinging around stories that have already been heard and IGNORED.

Perhaps is Ms. Palin had been reading newspapers...any newspapers... prior to Friday this would not have been "news" to her, since it has been hashed and re-hashed for many months now. Save a little money guys?jut take Ms. Clinton?s old campaign ads are change the tag line from "I'm Hillary Clinton and I approved this ad" to "I'm the Maverick and I...."
Do these people actually think they're fooling anyone other than the 42% of the county who choses to be fooled? They've pulled some shallow stuff recently, but this may take the prize. "My copy of the NYT"....come on. And Tucker Bounds has to be the second most ridiculous person in National politics.

Evangelical leader James Dobson. Is this family values in Alaska?
This is what Dobson had to say just last year, that was before Dobson apparently started going soft on adultery.
Seems Dobson had some choice words only a few years ago about John McCain's adultery. I guess the latest version of the Bible must have repealed the admonitions against adultery, or else Dobson wouldn't be now wooing McCain.
"The Senator," Dobson said, "is being touted by the media as a man of principle, yet he was involved with other women while married to his first wife, and was implicated in the so-called Keating scandal with four other senators. He was eventually reprimanded by the Congress for the 'appearance of impropriety.' The Senator reportedly has a violent temper and can be extremely confrontational and profane when angry. These red flags for everyone to beware."

Bill Ayers was a member of a radical group yes, he DID do some things that were criminal, yes...he did them in the 60's!!! I believe Obama was 4 years old when those things happened! How then can someone who pals around with the worlds BIGGEST TERRORIST GEORGE W BUSH, call out Obama for his minimal ties (through campaign contributions) to a man who did some bad things 50 years ago but has since leveled off, The McCain Camp is absolutely idiotic, reckless, and want to throw up a smoke screen to blind the American People from the real issues, THAT'S WORSE THAN WHAT BILL AYERS DID

Listen up, Ben. If you and your friends at Politico don't call this crap out as the desperate garbage that it is, then you are no worse than the media outlets that allowed the swiftboaters charges to go out unedited. Yes, it is the Obama campaign's job to fight the smears, but if you don't comment then you are simply a tool to be manipulated.
Posted By: jason | October 04, 2008 at 03:17 PM
Waah, waah, waah. Don't let them tell the truth about the Anointed ONe. It's so racist.

I was prepared to forgive Sarah for what she does not know.
Until now.
This behavior is DESPICABLE and quite frankly, I think she's on her way to paving a nice road to hell for herself. Doesn't matter who prays for you now, Sarah, you are evil.
My husband and I have just decided to campaign for Obama in swing states. We are grateful for the motivation.

Rethugs,...Copious spending on negative ads with your hard earned campaign donations,...what will InSaneWhackedMcCain do with taxpayer money? It's INSANE to do the same over and over gain and expect a change!
Change is more than just a slogan.

I wish McCain had the guts to say this to Barack's face so that he could counter with Mr. Keating and the $3 Billion his friend cost the American taxpayers and his involvement there grew a rebuke from the Senate....much more relevant and costly to the taxpayers

Did Obama's political career begin in Ayers home? YES. Did they serve on a board together? YES. Has he made large contributions to Obama's campaign in Chicago and now? YES. Are they friends? YES. Is he only a neighbor living near Obama? NO... Does Bill Ayers still HATE this country? YES. So is that a problem? YES. So stop accusing the McCain campaign of distortions. OPEN YOUR EYES AND RESEARCH IT YOUR STUPID LIBERAL ELITE!

Did Obama's political career begin in Ayers home? YES. Did they serve on a board together? YES. Has he made large contributions to Obama's campaign in Chicago and now? YES. Are they friends? YES. Is he only a neighbor living near Obama? NO... Does Bill Ayers still HATE this country? YES. So is that a problem? YES. So stop accusing the McCain campaign of distortions. OPEN YOUR EYES AND RESEARCH IT YOUR STUPID LIBERAL ELITE!

Shame on Palin and McCain for the slimy and baseless attacks on Obama. They are truly shameless and without integrity. After not being able to say what papers she reads, today Palin claims she read a New York Times story about Ayers and Obama...well this proves she either cannot read or is a liar, as the article says the opposite of what Palin claims.
I usually don't vote Democrat, but will this November solely to repudiate the lies of Palin and McCain. The last thing our country needs is more of the Bush-Cheney lies that led us into an illegal war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed our economy.

PALIN IS A HYPOCRITE---a six pack and a wink--God said beware of those who wink with one eye! God knows the real terrorist in wolfs in sheep clothing---mccain only pick this woman because of her family for eveangelcial voters and christians same old same old Mcbush who also USED YES USED THIS PLATFORM--TO WIN AN ELECTION AND IN 8 YEARS SAME THING DONE NOTHING----WOLFS IN SHEEP CLOTHING---IT IS UP TO THE CHURCHES TO START DOING THEIR JOBS AND SPREADING THE GOSPEL NOT THE GOVERNMENT JOB--THE ABORTION WILL BE WIPED OUT---NOT GOVERNMENT --WE HAVE A GOD THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT OUR GOD---WE HAVE GOD'S LAWS AND HIS TEN COMMANDMENT=-----the church says teh pope this was unjust war--there forth ---thou shall not kill--innoncent men woman children--now are they hypocrites???????? no such thing as prolife or prochoice---thou shall not kill period--thou shall not lie thou shall not steal---no one SIN IS GREATER THEN ANOTHER--GOD HATES LIARS--------------HELLO! break one commandment you broke themm all---the very first one-------I am the Lord thy God and NO OTHER GOD BEFORE ME---not even this government or any church--but God first!! we will all be judged and NO ONE CAN SAVE HIMSELF ----NO PRIEST NO MAN NO WOMAN AND NO GOVERNMENT HAS THAT AUTHORITY ONLY GOD WILL JUDGE IN THE END!

This country was founded by radicals, who challenged the prevailing consensus and the corrupt government of the colonies. Idealism, when repressed and unheard tends to regrettably extremist acts.
I might say to Sarah - if you didn't live the sixties as a conscious adult, you have no idea how corrupt and dangerous our government had become. And without a meaningful understanding of history, Ms. Palin has an affection for unchecked power that only leads to greater divisiveness and despotism when unchallenged.
She needs a whole lot more meat on her bones where issues are concerned, and also needs to mix it up more freely with those who might disagree. To have spurned her mentors as she has along the way is a sign of unbridled ambition and a willingness to destroy anything that stands in the way. It's ne surprise that she seems to think that all she wants to learn of Cheney's reign is where the levers are, and how soon can the rest of us get out of the way. Lots to learn, this one...

Obama isn't winning on issues, he's losing on issues. Most Americans don't want to surrender in Iraq. Barack Hussein Obama does. His longtime mentor, Jeremiah Wright, fully agrees with Obama's position. On economic issues: I'd like to know the politicians who encouraged lenders to take out loans that they couldn't pay back. Were they really conservative politicians?

Some of the Republican bigots here failed to notice that the NY Times article says Ayers and Obama were never close.
Oh, I just remembered. The truth never stopped Repugs from their detestable attacks. Shame on you, Palin!

McCain has nothing to offer, no ideas, no solutions so he'll throw rocks. The democrat and republican voters are pretty set on how they will vote, some independents are undecided. I don't think they are going to buy the mud slinging. It will ultimately make McCain the bad guy and Obama the good guy. In point of fact, the more I watch McCain the more I think he is a nasty critter.

McCain and his nutcase Vice President running mate, are running out of time. They are down 7 to 8 points in the national polls and some 101 electoral votes in the states. No one is paying attention to their rantings. Poor sad Republicans. Panic is setting in.

Haaa, Here we go and you know who will buy into this retorical BS?? The same people who still support the policies of BUSH/CHENNEY/McCain and company! Really do you think anyone with half a brain is going to buy this stuff! So my Question is McCains involvement with the KEATING 5 and the Lincoln Savings and Loans Scandals that almost cost McCain his career! My guess is this is money in the bank for The Left and they are holding the cards tight as they have out played every candidate to date in this high stakes chess match!

Did you guys know that even if we made the tax rate on paper the same for all people, the top 10% of the rich will pay more in taxes than the rest of the population. Guys do the math.
Take an example suppose there are 10 people in a room. One of them earns 2 million dollars a year (representing the ultra rich) the rest earn only 100,000 dollars a year (representing the middle class), at 20% uniform tax rate to all, the one rich man alone will pay around 70% of all the taxes - compared to the rest of the nine people in the room.
The question on fairness to all Americans - people on the right and on the left is this. If today the middle class is struggling with job losses and housing foreclosures, is it fair that rich dont stand up and pay what is fairly due of them?
Whom does it hurt more - taking 20,000 dollar away from a person earning 100,000 or 400,000 from a person earning 2 million dollars a year?
For our increased expenses -caused primarily due to Bush lead boneheaded war, and from economic crisis driven from the flawed concept of complete deregulation of free markets - WHO WILL STAND UP AND PAY THE BILL?
Is it fair to borrow more? Is it fair to pass the burden to the struggling middle class? Is it fair to ask the ultra rich to pay more?
Under Obama's tax plan - 95% of Americans will see a reduction in their taxes. 5% of super rich like Cindy McCain, Rush Limbaugh, Bill ORielly are being asked to be patriotic and stand up when they are being counted on.

As Gov. Palin so eloquently put it during the VP debate on Thusday: Sen. Obama wants to ?waive the white flag of defeat? in Iraq. I think most Americans, right of left of the aisle, do not want that to happen. Regardless of whether or not you supported the war at its onset, not to mention the debacle it transitioned into before Gen. Petreaus got there, we are clearly winning now. The terrorists are on the run, safety is improving, and if we don?t get it right this time, we?ll probably have to go back 10 years from now to fix it anyways. It?s like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Iraq has been doing well lately and it would be crime to let the lawlessness that has reigned for the last 3 years loose once again to ravage the country and its people.
Palin went on to point out that Obama is insistent on pursuing ?dangerous? foreign policies and remains ?naive? when it comes to the ways of the world. Imagine what people would say about anyone else promoting a 16 month withdraw plan for well over 18 months, and then saying that no revisions were necessary? That sounds pretty na?ve to me. Obama says that we must win in Afghanistan, which to him is the central front on the War on Terror (the Generals in the military disagree), and not necessarily Iraq. I can't imagine how we could possibly win in Afghanistan if we capitulate in Iraq. That is a very dangerous thinking.
I think Palin made the decision that voters face this year very clear. Vote for a winner, or vote for a loser.
The real Obama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S26C-rxIVW8

Of course the New York Times will run cover for Obama along with Politico and the rest of the liberal media. The fact remains Obama's associations ARE an issue. He has a history of association with people who hate America (Ayers, Rev "God Damn America" Wright and Michelle "not proud of her country" Obama). The American public have a right to know who Obama associates with. Few patriotic Americans would have anything to do with William Ayers or Rev Wright for that matter. Obama doesn't seem to have a problem with it.

Ayers? Can Sarah spell IRS??
Her tax returns did not include the per diems ($33K) or family travel ($45K) as income as it should have so she has a little problem.
"I saw the witch doctor he told me do....oo ee oo aa bing bang walla wall bing bang..."
Troopergate report next Friday after the SK Supreme Court turns down any intervention on Thursday...

OMG, Sarah Palin must be judging American Voters to be as naive and clueless like her. It's time that Sarag Palin wakes up and not behave like some actress auditioning, with a learned-up script for the Miss Mona role in one of the "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" musical shows. Hey, Dolly Parton could make even a better VP than Sarah Palin!

The common factor linking all religious extremists is the belief that any action that moves the cause forward is good and acceptable in the eyes of God. This is as true of Muslim extremists as it is Christian extremists.

Reading the comments is like watching a roadrunner cartoon. Do all you folks work for acme? Let me guess....you kiddies are still in college or fresh out right? Love Jon Stewart and Bill Maher?Obiden smears and "goes negative" all day long. Are you all blind or just stoopid? Not only do they go negative just as much, they distort the record more than McCain. Read a little already....

Gov. Palin has committed terrorist-like attacks in firing Alaska's police commissioner for political reasons.
How dangerous is that for Alaska residents????? Officers in that state will now be intimidated into doing the political thing instead of doing what's right to protect its people.
Gov. Palin has put Alaska resident at a major safety risk against protections they need!

Alaskan Independence Party? Todd Palin was a registered member of this party that calls for that destruction of America. Its Founder has called America evil.
Obama barely knows this guy who was a member of the weather underground 40 years ago. Please people, let's not let them get away with this crap.
I'm not defending the group, violence is never the answer. But, lets also insist on getting the facts straight. The news and McCain have claimed they killed innocent people. The only people who were ever injured by the activities of the Underground were 3 of its own members who accidentally detonated an explosive devise they were working on in their own Apartment. Sadly, these misguided kids died.
If the media is going to let the Mccain campaign get into these loose associations. They better delve deep into McCain's association with Charles keating the mastermind of the S&L scandal. McCain actually lobbied on his behalf. The S&L scandal is especially relevant now with banks failing left and right.

The polls are fake. Hussein is only sure of winning Illinois -- he shouldn't be. He is the next George McGovern, Walter Mondale, John Kerry, Mike Dukakis. The Bradley Effect has been explained to the liberals so many times -- and they still don't believe it. Well they better start believing it. Obama's crowds are dwindling and his debate performance is so pathetic, he is probably on his knees right now praying he does not get asked any questions at the next debate. Well, kids, lots of US will be there and he is going to get grilled -- and its STUMBLE BUM TIME. McCain will do outstanding as he is the real deal, a real American. Who the hell even knows who Barrack Hussein is?

Ahhhhh...Smell the DESPERATION!

It's about time our team started to play OFFENSE! It's hard being a cheerleader and fan out here when your team doesn't seem to be playing to win and wants to be nice all the time.
The other side plays dirty, corrupts the rules officials and tries to change the rules of the game.
We have to get tough, talk tougher, call the other team out for who they REALLY are, run a few end-arounds, throw a few 'hail Marys' and cross the finish line most convincingly, no matter how much the other side cheats.
Go, Sarah, go! We need OFFENSE! The other side doesn't appreciate playing by the rules and playing fair. They don't have any respect for Christian ethics and morals.

Good news for Obama camp all around! After running away from MI, with his tail between his legs, the only thing Grandpa Munster and Morticia can do is to smear. But, it WON'T work! Desperate hours for a desperate campaign. McChicken's last stomp in MI was, appropriately, at a mortuary!

I'll bet Sarah would love to be up in her plane with Todd and a few loaded guns to track and respond to her critics at will.
Her nicey-nice act is just that, and her skill at stirring up mindless crowds with her electric smile is an addictive high for her - crack without the pipe. Watch in the future and see in she learns actual substance or more of the fake cosmetic kind.

HUSSEIN OBAMA is a radical politician and the nation needs to be aware of it. The liberal media chooses to ignore this fact and or covers it up for the Hussein Obama Campaign. Criminal Rezko should be brought out as well and his association with the black panthers and other anti American groups. I am delighted that the McCain camp has finally decided to present the negatives of Hussein Obama something that have being shielded by the Mainstream Media thus far. If you ask the Democrat on the street they don't even know that these Hussein Obama associations exist.

PALIN,
I find your comment not only abusive but completely repellant.
LEARN THIS:
1. Obama is not an Idiot. He is Harvard Prof of Law. He chose equally brain charged Law Prof (Biden teaches Const Law at UN of Delaware) AND NOT A TRAIN WRECKER THAT YOU ARE!
2. It is our party that turned this country negative down. We let our power slip away to China. We have given them the power to be our principle donor. Hope you received your stimulus package. I also believe that more than 75% of your household goods are made in China (do you we have $850Bn for this bail-out?). Our graph is downward slope as China is steep upwards both in GDP, Foreign affairs and almost everything. By the way, China and Russia is and will block any of our proposal to Security Council (UN) until we be more diplomatic! Iran enjoys that.
3. Mcain is a turn-coat for lobbyists. Rick Davies is the Master. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081020/ames_berman. I guess that link teaches you something about John Mcain. It?s up to you to decide!
I spent 5yrs working for United Nations. I am surprised some of these facts are coming up now. To the best of my knowledge, Mcain should not go negative. We like him but his choice of advisors is horrible. Rick Davies, Monafort and Dick Morris were deep involved in the Orange revolution in Ukraine and the Kremlin hold on Montenegro.
Am Republican but Mcain is the wrong candidate for this Nation! Primaries did not vet him well!

face it folks. Barack Obama was stupid enough to get chummy with a domestic terrorist and a racist pastor. Her would also like to meet with men like Amadinijad without pre-qualification. Barack Obama is an opportunistic empty suit.

How is this a smear? It is a fact that that Obama launched his career in Ayers home, worked with him on two foundations....this is no more a smeat than pointing out that McCain was a part of the Keating Five. People have known about the Ayers connection for a while...You political junkies are hilarious. Thank god for the comic relief I get here every now and then.

Obama quotes: White man's greed fills a world in need... Typical White People... Bitter Pennsylvanians clinging to their guns and religion... They'll try to make you afraid of me cuz I'm black and I have a funny name, and I don't look like those white guys on the dollar bills... I think I've been to all 57 states in our country... I hardly know Rezko... I hardly know Ayers... I never heard any of Wright's sermons and I didn't know his beliefs for 20 years... My Muslim Faith... Malcolm X racebaiting as in Hoodwinked and Bamboozled... the list goes on and on...McCain/Palin 2008!

Posted By: Vote for a Patriot, Not a Racist | October 04, 2008 at 04:26 PM

Every time i hear this smear I think of G gordon liddy and mcain.
For all you high and mighty right wingers read this.http://jamillerrampant.blogspot.com/2008/08/john-mccains-terrorist-friend-g-gordon.html

Failin Palin is a "parrot", a trained monkey with no depth, no grasp of the issues so most thinking people will ignore her! McBlame has lost any shred of integrity he may have once had and is continuing to sink lower and lower. He can't compete on the issues so he attacks, even if those attacks have proven to be false and hopes that enough people are stupid enough to vote for this man of no character! KEATING, KEATING, KEATING!!

Well, here she goes...McCain's pit bull with lipstick. This a good one. I'm getting ads on the phone now, one being the NRA with fear tactics that are totally false. I think it is about time that they just cut the crap. One of the R-reps is going to introduce a plan that is going to cut capital gains taxes in foreign markets. I don't know what percentage, but it might help to bring more money in the markets. I don't know all the details. The only thing is when you start releasing that much, you have to work about more debt, I would think. It's getting crazy.

So what if Barack was only 8 when Ayers was bombing police stations, trying to bomb the Capitol, etc.? AYERS HAS NOT CHANGED HIS RADICAL VIEWS. He has stated -- when Barack was an adult -- that his one regret is that he didn't set MORE bombs! Ayers is the far, far, left fringe. Further, despite Obama's pretense at barely knowing Ayers, Ayers is Obama's political godfather. It was Ayers who held a fundraiser, in his home, that launched Obama's career. These are truths that, like them or not, should concern American voters. But I see the BHO spin machine is busy trying to change the subject to the economy. The fact is that Gov. Palin was absolutely right. BHO does NOT see America the way most of us do. If he did, he would not have been closely associated with Bill Ayers in numerous contexts over many years. Simple as that.

I read the Times story and was greatly disturbed by it. I was also dissapointed in Barack. He has made light of his relationship with William Ayres (I think we can all agree the man is a slime) and I find that dishonest. I am unsure about my vote but Baracks ties to people like this and Wright and Rezco make me shake my head.

The Main Stream Media: USA Today, NY Times, Associated Press, Reuters, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN,Polico, Daily Kos, etc.
They no longer practice any sense of ethics, objectivity, or fairness that has been the bedrock of America?s core values. They are nothing more than Advocates.
Shaving points in sports is wrong, lying under oath is wrong, selling the poor houses they can?t afford is wrong, biased slanted reporting and polling is wrong!
Americans are ill served if they cannot rely on impartial fair representation of both sides of all issues in plain, unemotional, and unedited fashion, however boring it may be.
Without this, the better team doesn't win, instead they are appointed.
Good ole fashioned honesty is taking a real hit this election
Yellow Journalism is alive and well here at ABC

The McCain campaign also ought to re visit the comments of Hussein Obama negative comments referring to the military and the war on terror. Hussein Obama has had a free ride and it is time we knock him off his horse. Of course the Hussein Obama supporters aren't the one the McCain people are going after. These supporters are 30 percent of far left wing idiots that nothing will change their water carrying habits. They are addressing the 30 percent of independents and Clinton Democrats who remain undecided.

Palin seems to only know how to recite nasty FALSE rumors. I am sick and tired of this woman. She is a poor representation for us and I hope that we do what is right for AMERICA and send her back to ALASKA.... and by the way take McCain with you. I need to hear real facts. I was just at an OBAMA rally in Abington PA and it was great. He really laid out a do able plan. We have to vote for him and Biden. Let's not let things as silly as race stop us from doing what would best help us-Vote Obama/Biden 08.

jeremy -- who ever told you that Barack Hussein obama was a Harvard Law Professor. NOT! He would never be hired there. He got into Harvard Law because of affirmative action, could not pass the bar, worked as Michelle Obama's legal intern (she didn't pass the bar either the first time, then got coaching and passed the second time). The best O could do was get a part time teaching slot at the U of Chicago!

Palin has come to realization that she and McCain will lose in November. Her latest bit of BS is a try out for Ann Coulter's job.
We haven't seen much of AC (just a coincidence that she has the same intials of the Anti-Christ???) recently.
Cause ya know Joe Six Pack Palin has seen the big city and has met you know those... "ethnic" people from all over the world. So there is no way she can go back to Alaska. Dad nubbitl...it's just not EXCITIN' enough for her anymore.

The people of america was in doubt becuase Sarah Palin was not know enough. But after the debate, watched by millions of people, things has changed. The American people now believes (84%) that the McCain-Palin ticket is the right choise. So the race is just getting started...

While talking about questionable associates, how about Todd Palin's pals in the Alaskan Independence Party? They want to LEAVE America, not put it first.
The McCain campaign may be sorry they're taking this route because they have plenty of questionable associations themselves.

All I can say is God don't like ugly, The old saying goes "Sticks and Stones may break his bones, but God has a plan for him. No matter what the opposite opponents says, where is the proof, they are going on peculation and the New York times is factual. They can make up a story they please, but God has the last say so, when you lie on people, it comes back and bit you in the "ass" and God has no room for liars. You notice that Obama does not make tv ads trying to destroy Palin and Mccain, because they will destroy themselves. Ask about the 15min conversation they had and why he chose someone he did not know, and she does not know a thing about politic, only what they school her on. If you really listened and listened well to the Debates, then you would know she was very well coached on what to say. I could problem run for vice president and I don't know any thing about politics, but I know about motherhood and what women want!

Journalistic Ethics?
by SouthernRoots
The Constitution grants special protections to "the Press".
This is because a free and open exchange of ideas is essential to our form of government.
This also gives "the Press" a responsibilty to be the watchdogs of government.
When the press become politicized to a particular viewpoint, they stop presenting both sides of an issue and they lean only towards the views they share with one party.
When they do this, they become an extension of the party rather than an independent reporter.
From the Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, how does this editing stack up?
?Test the accuracy of information from all sources and exercise care to avoid inadvertent error. Deliberate distortion is never permissible.
?Make certain that headlines, news teases and promotional material, photos, video, audio, graphics, sound bites and quotations do not misrepresent. They should not oversimplify or highlight incidents out of context.
?Never distort the content of news photos or video. Image enhancement for technical clarity is always permissible. Label montages and photo illustrations.
?Examine their own cultural values and avoid imposing those values on others.
?Support the open exchange of views, even views they find repugnant
?Distinguish between advocacy and news reporting. Analysis and commentary should be labeled and not misrepresent fact or context.
VOTE - John McCain / Sarah Palin TODAY!

Ha! it's fun to watch the daily kos commies heads explode when someone starts mentioning the background of their radical candidate. Hey Kos kids, Obama's association with Ayers is one of the longest associations he has had. Get used to it, next week we can talk about his working for ACORN.

Why isn't the main stream media talking about Aryers? Obama is a radical liberal tring to hide his true beliefs in this general election. He will try to turn this country so far left even the liberals will be suprised when he gets into office. I don't know why America would want a person like this to lead this country. John McCain is a true American hero who loves this country and I feel safe knowing that he would do what is best for America and every AMERICAN!

Obama has disassociated himself with so many previous associations,that it just becomes easier each time he makes a claim that he condemns one of his old buddies.Fact is,after he's in the White House,he's gonna owe so many people that it'll take years to pay them all back.After that he may or may not be able to start working on his campaign promises.It should be easy to get to the main promise,a hope and a dream for every American.But,how do you measure that promise?Maybe one of you Nobel Laureates can explain that for me.Goodbye hopes and so long dreams.

Clearly many of you did not learn all you need in the sandbox. "Ok children, now repeat after me.."
Mayor Sarah Palin, Governor Sarah Palin, Vice President Sarah Palin,
Senator John McCain, President John McCain
Get used to it!

or if you are afraid to open the link.see this from the huffington post.
John McCain has had a field day with Barack Obama's tenuous associations with Bill Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground who is now a Chicago professor.
Obama has said repeatedly that Ayers' radical past (he was involved in a handful of bombings in the 1960s) occurred when Barack was just a child, and he repudiates those actions. Nevertheless, McCain wants more. He claimed recently:
"I think not only a repudiation but an apology for ever having anything to do with an unrepentant terrorist is due the American people."
Now, however, the Chicago Tribune is pointing out McCain's own radical associations with G. Gordon Liddy:
How close are McCain and Liddy? At least as close as Obama and Ayers appear to be. In 1998, Liddy's home was the site of a McCain fundraiser. Over the years, he has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator's campaigns--including $1,000 this year.
Last November, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as "an old friend," and McCain sounded like one. "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family," he gushed. "It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."
For those who are unaware, Liddy helped plan the Watergate break-in that would cost Nixon his presidency and landed Liddy a four-year jail sentence.
But Liddy's career of inflammatory statements and actions exceed his Watergate actions.
Liddy, on Vitenam:
"I wanted to bomb the Red River dykes sic. It would have drowned half the country and starved the other half. There would have been no way the Viet Cong could have operated if we had the will-power to do that."
Liddy, advising Branch Davidians how to defend themselves from ATF agents during a radio show:
"If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head."
Liddy, on the impact Adolf Hitler had on him as a child:

Here it comes, it's the final round and Johnny Mac as some serious points to make up. He and his glass-eyed doll are going to throw everything they've got and hope for a miracle knock-out. Obama will keep doing what he's been doing, effectively dodge the slinging of fecal matter. Now it's up to those "Hillarybillies" to seal the deal.

Palin and McCain are clowns. Period. Who is dumb enough to fall for that now ?? I just think it's hilarious. We are waaaay smarter than that. Now that's a damn slap in the face. Palin is a character seriously.

cathyatfresnostate -
Please read the NYT article again. There is no strong connection between Ayers and Obama at all. The McCain campaign is going to try to exaggerate it for all its worth. Please don't buy the smear.

You know, I was offended when Hillary kept repeating the Bill Ayers crap months ago. Now, I;m glad she did. This isn't news; its largely been debunked, and to bring it up at this stage reeks of desperation. I never thought Hill was correct in her assertion that whatever dirt she spewed forth would ultimately be good for the party come general election time; she was right. I don't think the low information voter is going to give this Ayers line of reasoning much thought at this juncture. Thanks Hillary.

you obama people are nuts!!
this guy doesn't know s_ _ t and all ya'll are so blinded by his lies.
he sat in a church for 20 years and never heard nothing negitive..yea right!!!
he never heard anything neg. because he believes the same as wright..that is not the kind of pres. i want. and for his angry lookin wife!!! never proud of this country...not my first lady! never...she is to hateful.

Obama & Biden exemplify talkers who never produce anything but lip service to those whose time and focus is to get things done.
They consume taxpayer?s wages their whole lives then profess understanding areas in the private sector they have no experience in at all.
Neither Democrat has shown the skills to survive on their own without government paychecks. Just look at their real not imagined record .

Unbelievably weak connection. Does this mean that John McCain and Timothy McVeigh were bosom buddies just because McCain is a republican and McVeigh was republican? They're part of the same party . The must have obviously believed in the same things. And if McCain wasn't already a U.S. senator than he would've been a radical right wing domestic terrorist too.
Does this argument make any sense, or have any credibility, whatsoever? Of course not. Neither does the Obama/Ayers relationship argument. Very, very weak. And desperate.

The silence from the Obama camp is deafening. It is a fact that Barack Obama had deeper ties to terrorist William Ayers than Barack Obama was letting on. In other words Barack Obama is a liar who is not only telling lies to the media but to his supporters and detractors as well. If McCain keeps reminding people about the types of low-lifes that Barack Obama has spent a lifetime associating with he will win the election.

This coming from a woman who can't even put together a coherent and logical sentence. She's just McCain's chatty Kathy doll. Feed me the lines you want, pull my string and I'll talk away. To try and rehash all this nonsense that has already been dealt with in the primary is foolish. McCain better watch it or he'll be forced to talk about Keating 5 and Sarah will find herself trying to defend her religious affiliations. These two are the joke of the year. As I see it, we have one professional pair and two clowns running for election this year and the clowns aren't the dems.

Obama "barely knew Ayers"??? That's absurd. Ayers started Obama on his political career. You don't forget the man who hosted your first fundraiser, or the man with whom you you torched over $110 million (Chicago Annenberg Challenge). Half these comments are the sorts of things one would have expected to read in Pravda during the Cold War: no connection with reality.

Newsflash for Meredith Wellstein, (just learning about Hussein Obama's affiliation with Terrorist Ayers): go to
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=158353
and check it out for yourself.
It's worse than they want us to believe and B. Hussein Obama is hoping the election will get here before everyone can find out how deep his affiliation with the terrorist goes. B. Hussein Obama handed Ayers millions of our taxpayer money to help with inner city "education" - translate: voter fraud.

candyPUMA: I've watched a lot of coverage but have yet to see a Palin "friend." Can you provide some examples? Maybe some of Todd Palin's AIP buddies? Some of the Troopergate crowd? The witch-hunting minister?
Just wondering.

Obama & Biden exemplify talkers who never produce anything but lip service to those whose time and focus is to get things done.
They consume taxpayer?s wages their whole lives then profess understanding areas in the private sector they have no experience in at all.
Neither Democrat has shown the skills to survive on their own without government paychecks. Just look at their real not imagined record .

McCain and Palin are starting to sound like not only losers but sore losers. Their poison this election cycle will probably drive more people to the democratic party and possibly hurt the republican party more in the house and senate. People are too scared to put up with this Rovian horse manure this time around

WOW! I have heard Bill Ayers name enough times that I should have looked into it sooner. But after the Times article I googled him at last and I am blown away. This guy really was a terrorist. A president cannot have strong ties to a man like this. The guy should be in jail and Barack Obama was foolish to hang around with him.

Or read this from the right leaning steve chapman fron the chicago tribune.
Can a presidential candidate justify a long and friendly relationship with someone who, back in the 1970s, extolled violence and committed crimes in the name of a radical ideology -- and who has never shown remorse or admitted error? When the candidate in question is Barack Obama, John McCain says no. But when the candidate in question is John McCain, he's not so sure.
Obama has been justly criticized for his ties to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, who in 1995 hosted a campaign event for Obama and in 2001 gave him a $200 contribution. The two have also served together on the board of a foundation. When their connection became known, McCain minced no words: "I think not only a repudiation but an apology for ever having anything to do with an unrepentant terrorist is due the American people."What McCain didn't mention is that he has his own Bill Ayers -- in the form of G. Gordon Liddy. Now a conservative radio talk-show host, Liddy spent more than 4 years in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate burglary. That was just one element of what Liddy did, and proposed to do, in a secret White House effort to subvert the Constitution. Far from repudiating him, McCain has embraced him.
How close are McCain and Liddy? At least as close as Obama and Ayers appear to be. In 1998, Liddy's home was the site of a McCain fundraiser. Over the years, he has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator's campaigns -- including $1,000 this year.
Last November, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as "an old friend," and McCain sounded like one. "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family," he gushed. "It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."Which principles would those be? The ones that told Liddy it was fine to break into the office of the Democratic National Committee to plant bugs and photograph documents? The ones that made him propose to kidnap anti-war activists so they couldn't disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention? The ones that inspired him to plan the murder (never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist?
Liddy was in the thick of the biggest political scandal in American history -- and one of the greatest threats to the rule of law. He has said he has no regrets about what he did, insisting that he went to jail as "a prisoner of war."
All this may sound like ancient history. But it's from the same era as the bombings Ayers helped carry out as a member of the Weather Underground. And Liddy's penchant for extreme solutions has not abated.
In 1994, after the disastrous federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, he gave some advice to his listeners: "Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. ... Kill the sons of *****es."
He later backed off, saying he meant merely that people should defend themselves if federal agents came with guns blazing. But his amended guidance was not exactly conciliatory: Liddy also said he should have recommended shots to the groin instead of the head. If that wasn't enough to inflame any nut cases, he mentioned labeling targets "Bill" and "Hillary" when he practiced shooting.
Given Liddy's record, it's hard to see why McCain would touch him with a 10-foot pole. On the contrary, he should be returning his donations and shunning his show. Yet the senator shows no qualms about associating with Liddy -- or celebrating his service to their common cause.
How does McCain explain his howling hypocrisy on the subject? He doesn't. I made repeated inquiries to his campaign aides, which they refused to acknowledge, much less answer. On this topic, the pilot of the Straight Talk Express would rather stay parked in the garage.
That's an odd policy for someone who is so forthright about his rival's responsibility. McCain thinks Obama should apologize for associating with a criminal extremist. To which Obama might reply: After you.
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Obama splits from long time friends AS SOON AS it's in his personal career interest to leave them behind.

When and if elected, he is going to be despised by the liberals MORE THAN Nancy Pelosi because he is going to HAVE TO compromise his far left voting record to work with conservative and centrist Washington politicians and bureaucrats.

supporter of terrorists, terrorist regimes, constitutional rights for terrorists and terrorist religions. the most anti-American candidate in history. exactly why the rest of the world wants him elected.
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I couldn't agree more with the above statement

This is absurd. Smear tactics? Really that is all we have left to look forward to? How about we get to real questions and answers. What will you do for our country? And will Americans rise about this mess that the government has created?
Look to the Securities and Loan Crisis... Keating 5 for Christ sake... Who was involved in that? McCAIN and who are his advisers? Phl Gram - who was played a major role inderegulation laws, including the landmark Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999 which is a huge reason of why we got into this mess in the 1st place. And whats even better is that there was no regulation oversight with ENERGY commodities and look what happened to ENRON.... OHH and wait guess whose wife was on the board of ENRON? PHIL GRAM's wife!!! Conflict of interest? hmmm
Also Rick Davis... hmmm which company was paying him 30gs a month to do nothing? Fannie and Freddie... He's a big time lobbyist but McCain says he's for or against regulation? I forget cause he flips from either or when it benefits him. Screw that !!! This mess has been created by his party and whats even better even if McCain says he's about reform he's party is not.
Barack said it best.... this campaign is not about him but rather the AMERICAN PEOPLE.. We want and deserve change !! And I'm sorry but the Republican ticket will not give us that..

This coming from an idiot who could not say what newspapers she reads! This coming from a moron who thinks she has any foreign policy experience because her state is close to Russia!! This coming from a fool who is part of a movement to have Alaska succeed from the union!!! SARAH PALIN YOU ARE THE REAL TERRORIST! Your words are as desperate as a suicide bomber's actions.

Go Sarah. You have the guts to stand up and tell the people the truth about Obama. The media has failed the American people. Now, it's up to you and Senator McCain. You're authentic, more than Obama has ever been. Cheers.

When Obama was eight... Interesting interpretation... It reminds me of Jeremiah Wright. How old was he when he sat in that church for twenty years? One? Two? Three? Four years old? he doesn't remember anything, so I reckon he was either too small, is deaf or there is also a third option and that is that he simply stupid. I personally favour option III.

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a
gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually
the topic got
around to Sarah Palin and her bid to be a heartbeat away from being President.

The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.'

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.

The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence
post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle.'

The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain. 'You
know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what
to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb #ss put her up there to
begin with."

William Ayers (the terrorist) created Barack Obama. Without the terrorist there is no Barack Obama. Barack Obama is a liar and a sneak. Time to start answering some hard questions community organizer style.

Hey Sarah,
Why don't you go Moose hunting in a helicopter. I hear it's easier to kill them from the air.
It's also easy to attack a man who never has said a bad word about you. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF. You're not so
"cute" anymore. (wink wink)

You people just don't get it. Seriously, you don't! So let me share the truth with you.
But, be forewarned, it aint gonna be pretty.

Nobody likes McCain!

Yes, I know that's a bitter pill to swallow. But you can't blame Obama for THAT. I mean
go ahead and take a peek at McCain's favorability rating over on the right.

If you take away Palin, McCain would have about a couple of dozen people at his speeches.
As a matter of fact, in order to get people excited, he has to campaign WITH his VP.
People are more enthused about his VP than him. Seriously, why are you upset with Obama?

And after the debate and in some alternate universe where you think Palin actually won,
the Gallup poll went from +7 to +8 for Obama.

So it appears that McCain feels that his ONLY recourse for his erratic campaign since
people have a low opinion of the "straight talker" is to make the other guy look worse.
And to hell with the facts and policy stuff.

I could've sworn that both he and Cindy said that "you will NEVER see negative ads coming
out of his campaign". Well, so much for that lie.

Oh, and the whole Rev. Wright thing, if he brought that up, would be a definitive and
transparent sign of desperation. But good luck with that.

Why did the DNC file a motion to dismiss in the lawsuit that is pending against obama in regards to his birth certificate? He has been ordered to produce it. What are they trying to hide? If he didn't have something to hide, they would just produce the birth certificate, not file a motion to dismiss.

I'm completely certain that McCain had absolutely no idea of exactly what he was getting
in to when he chose Sarah Palin. Trust me, even in the ridiculously-limited amount of time
he's known her before he chose her, I'm sure he envisioned a campaign that was much
different than the one he has. Her negatives far outweigh her positives. He's actually
losing women voters faster than he gained them! It is women, regardless of their political
affiliation, that are speaking out the most strongly against her. That's because women
openly and intuitively KNOW about her!

But more importantly, she's a politically dangerous woman. She's like a black widow. Every
politician (males) that has mentored or tried to help her has regretted it, because she will
easily come back to bite the hand that fed her.

In addition to that, you can actually see her motives in the works right now. Case in
point...

1. Who's her favorite VP? The one that eventually became President. And she basically said
that.

2. In her stump speech, in her ambition and zealotry "mistakingly" said "a PALIN-McCain
administration".

3. If you were just concerned that she got out of the debate without totally embarassing
herself, then you probably missed this.

When the question was asked of each of the VP candidates about how their administration
would be different than the Presidential nominee's, did you hear the responses?

Sen. Biden immediately goes down Obama's list of policies and programs that he would
continue to implement. Gov. Palin, however, responds by IMMEDIATELY noting the disagreements
and how she would do things differently (watch it again or read the transcript).

4. Assuming she understood the question (which could be debatable), she wants to EXPAND the
role of the VP! If you thought Dick Cheney was powerful, look out!

Nasty politics as usual. Give a blow, take a blow. I don't give a rats you know what about this. Trying to get our attention away from what's really important sounds about right for someone who is losing!!! And as far as Ms. Palin goes in saying that " It is not what you and I beleive" Leave me out of it. GO OBAMA!

Hey DKAN71. You hang in there for you will have your chance to eat your words when you vote and then you find out what you voted for is worse for the USA then the ones who votes for Bush.
Who do you think was behind the bal out issue. You dumb ass, do your home work.

It seems like this is the first paper ms. palin has read seeing as this allegation has been on the books for months now. I also like how she doesn't even pretend to make it seem like she had any idea about this, instead we get an image of the gov. sitting down saying, "oh well let's give this liberal rag a look see" reading the head line and exclaiming "What What WHAT!?!?!?!?!" hilarious.

The U.S. is gutted and you excuse the person in charge now as legit? I wouldn't want to be associated with Ayers, but who would want to be associated with the current president? I think the U.S. needs some serious soul searching to get us out of the chaotic state. We are spiraling out of control. There is no longer unity in the United States.
Its sad to see America fall but its inevitable. There is a basic formula that I live by and I am witness that it works.
Greed + Power = Isolation
Unity + Respect = Power
Our current state of affairs is DEFCON 1 and nobody seems to really care.
For a minute after 9/11 when everybody pulled together and sang and united, I had a glimpse of hope. Six years later and completely divided, our adversaries are ready to pounce and we have our pants down. Our friends are absent and our system is completely in taters.
We are so completely blind to this and its so obvious to other countries looking in. Our news networks are nothing but tabloid entertainment and our citizens have no clue.
It's a tragic day in America.

Hey!! NOW, I understand why Obama said the "soldiers in Afganistan were air raiding and killing civilians!" It makes SO much sense now that I know Obama has been hanging with domestic terrorist. Gosh, between Obama's "truth police," court cases to stiffle our first admendment right, posting on his website where Governor Palin is so his followers can go out and protest her, and his calling for his rowdy followers to "get in out faces and argue,... I'm beginning to believe Obama is too radical to be our President. Oy Vey... I guess that would explain why he is the #1 most liberal Senator in America. Damn good thing he has managed to keep his college days a secret. No wonder he is prepared to meet with dictators and presidental terrorist without pre-conditions.

They are right about Ayers and Dohrn-during Vietnam many of our soldiers (my husband) when they were state side did riot control-
I remeber-if Obama is as smart as he said he is then he perfectly well knows who and what Ayers and Dohrn are all about-It is so sad that my husband, cousins, friends and neighbors went to Vietnam (drafted) served their country, came home and were spat upon and then we have a political candidate who knows and has worked with Ayers who at the time of Vietnam we criitizing our government, used violence and told the youth of the time to "kill their parents" I also remeber what Bernadine Dohrn said when Sharon Tate-actress and pregnanat at the time was murdered by the Manson Family-Ayers wife said ,"they (meaning manson family) killed the pigs and then ate dinner in the same room" Great people-Dohrn and Ayers.
I would not let them around my cat.
Sorry Obama-my husband who died a few years ago due to illness from Vietnam,did not go to a war to have you play Mr. America

HUSSEIN OBAMA is a radical politician and the nation needs to be aware of it. The liberal media chooses to ignore this fact and or covers it up for the Hussein Obama Campaign. Criminal Rezko should be brought out as well and his association with the black panthers and other anti American groups. I am delighted that the McCain camp has finally decided to present the negatives of Hussein Obama something that have being shielded by the Mainstream Media thus far. If you ask the Democrat on the street they don't even know that these Hussein Obama associations exist.
Posted By: CONBUG | October 04, 2008 at 04:23 PM
Actually he Obama basically admitted he associated with black panthers when he refused in the debate with Hillary to reject Louis Farrakhan. Louis Farrakhan is constantly with black panthers. Black panthers were standing behind Rev Wright in at least one of his speaches. Obama attended his church for 20 long years, called Wright his friend and mentor, titled his book after him and uses the words of his church's man of the year, Louis Farrakhan on the stump. You are being bamboozled and hoodwinked. What exactly is Obama's definition of a "typical white person" and does he think there are also "typical black people" and if so what are they? Why doesn't the MSM ask him about this? Is his free ride ever going to end?

Another recycled story. I guess we will hear about Rev. Wright again.
I think it will backfire this time, for the fact it now shows desperation on the Republican side. Some things don't work with the variables are different. And they are different now.

Ayers and Obama worked side-by-side for years, through 2001, at an educational foundation.
Now that may or may not bother most voters but it is a fact.
And that fact is contrary to how Obama has characterized his relationship with Ayers, who admits to bombing the Pentagon, admits membership in a 60's grouptht killed people, and has recently said he has no regrets about that. In fact, Ayers said he wished he had done more.
Say what yo want abot John McCain, but he would never associate with someone like that.

Then after Sarah Palin finished her first bottle feeding of the New York Times by her handlers she returned to her old news standby, Creation Research Society Quarterly. She loves rereadin' that part where Noah herds the pair of T-Rexes onto the Arc with his sons and daughters.
Go Sarah - let the end times roll!
Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, then get elected and prove it. P.J. O'Rourke

Yeah, I was a Hillary supporter considering McCain, but this sealed it; I'm voting for Obama-Biden. I have too many problems to listen to this absurd name-calling when I can flip to the Obama rally and listen to actual ideas. How will their plans affect my life, that's what we need to be asking ourselves.
Posted By: Diane | October 04, 2008 at 03:40 PM And there you have the reason why the race is already over. Thank you Diane and America.

McCain and Palin are always trying to smear Obama and Biden with some made up lies..At least Obama is not an adulterer like McCain who cheated on his poor, sick first wife with his present wife. Palin is under investigation for her part in the scam on the brige to no where, and the scandal with her brother-in-law..McCain and Palin have enough skeletons in their closets and I am sure there is more we have not heard about...OBAMA/BIDEN all the way!!!!

such tactics mean the McCain camp has grown desperate.
I've know good people who did bad things at some point in their life...does that mean that the bad thing they did is something I support?
Is McCain still an infidel because he abandoned his crippled wife for a younger, richer, more politically connected woman?
Does that mean he is an opportunistic arse?
And if we are to be convicted by association -- however brief and incidental -- is Palin supportive of men who abandon troubled wives for wealthier women? What would that make her?
If Obama is to be defined by his association with Rev. Wright then what of Sarah Palin's Fundamentalist, End-Time, Bring on Armageddon Church? And McCain's nutty pastor relations?
Sarah, get ready.

"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government."
Joe Vogler, Sarah Palin's mentor and founder of the Alaska Independence Party. Todd Palin was a member until a few years ago. Talk about terrorist associations!

LOL. Palin clearly didn't READ the NYT article since it pretty much discredited the idea that the two men are or have EVER been close.
Go ahead and desperately grasp at straws, McCain. You betcha, it's over for ya! ;)

Ah, so they'd rather insult Barack Obama that address the economic woes that the country is facing. Did they not see the reaction the cnn panel had to negative statement during the debates? The only people who will buy this are those who are already voting for McCain.

I think she just looks at the pictures in news articles. On the other side of the coin, wasn't it the Bush Administration that after 9/11 made arrangements for some of Osama Bin Laden's family to leave the US. She is so out of it.

The bottom line is when you can not back up your theme for change,being a reformer and being a bipartisan with facts you hide behind lies and smears. Just like the people who will vote for mcain/palin are doing right behind their candidates.
ps. plaese do not repeat "maverick" to back up your candidate. The facts are that Mcain was only a "maverick" when it suited his own political and lobyist's needs. That kind of selfish governing is what got him the reputation and loathing from his party.He was never a "maverick" on Taxes,deRegulation,going to War,healthcare and whole bunch of big" issues that affect the majority of us. As far as Palin = "maverick" it seems that the truth and facts have gotten in the way of her "maverick" reputation.

It's about time someone in McCain's campaign spoke out about Obama and his radical Left cronies, the main stream press sure won't do it...This guy does not see the U.S. as the majority of Americans do..

What in the world is being associated with certain individuals when one is 8 years old worthy of newsprint. I detest mud slinging. I WANT TO KNOW where they stand, and how they will fix the problems - NOT EACH OTHER.
THEY CAN FIX THAT AFTER THE ELECTION.
GEORGE

"There's been a lot of interest in what I read lately."
The problem I see with this story is that EVERYONE KNOWS FOR FACT THAT PALIN DOES NOT READ ANY PAPERS, ONLY TELEPROMPTERS OR Q-CARDS, so it's hard to believe she could have actually "read" anything about Obama at all!
She is fond of saying that she has only been in DC for 5 weeks, but I can assure you that it only took her 3 days to learn McCAIN'S TALKING POINTS WHICH REQUIRE ONE TO SPREAD LIES AND SMEARS! She was a really quick study on FECES SLINGING! Doggone it! Wink, wink.

ThThey are right about Ayers and Dohrn-during Vietnam many of our soldiers (my husband) when they were state side did riot control- I remeber-if Obama is as smart as he said he is then he perfectly well knows who and what Ayers and Dohrn are all about-It is so sad that my husband, cousins, friends and neighbors went to Vietnam (drafted) served their country, came home and were spat upon and then we have a political candidate who knows and has worked with Ayers who at the time of Vietnam we criitizing our government, used violence and told the youth of the time to "kill their parents" I also remeber what Bernadine Dohrn said when Sharon Tate-actress and pregnanat at the time was murdered by the Manson Family-Ayers wife said ,"they (meaning manson family) killed the pigs and then ate dinner in the same room" Great people-Dohrn and Ayers. I would not let them around my cat. Sorry Obama-my husband who died a few years ago due to illness from Vietnam,did not go to a war to have you play Mr. America
Posted By: coffee usa | October 04, 2008 at 04:56 PM
ank you for bringing it home sister. Thank you for telling it straight. God bless you. -------

Ok, it's about time to raise the 26 propaganda broadcasts our "hero" made, his role in the Forrestal fire ignition, the real Keating 5 story. All from fact-based standpoints. We may have to get his help by agreeing to release Navy and medical records he refuses to. Do you think he is hiding anything? Does Sarah know? Is she nervous about the Troopergate finding coming out in ten days? I would be.
McCain and Palin have no veracity and no honor. Run over them at the polls.

REPUBLICANS EVIL DEVILS ARE SHOWING THEIR HORNS WITH SUCH EVIL LIES AND DESTORTION IT WILKL GET WORSE----------------------YOU KNOW YOU HAVE THE RIGHT MAN OBAMA WHEN WHEN YOU SEE EVIL RAGE RIGHT MCCAIN????????????? REPUBLICANS THE LIARS AND THEVES DO NOT WANT TO MOVE OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE---THEY HAVE STOLEN EVERY THING FROM YOU AND DESTROYED AMERICAN ON EVERY FRONT! WRONG ON WAR IN IRAQ! WRONG ON THE COST! WRONG ON NO MASS CHEMICAL WEAPONS! WRONG ON HOW LONG--SAID IN AND OUT! WRONG ON KEEPING ISRAELS SAFER! WRONG ON THE COST! WRONG ON NOT MUCH LOST LIFE IN IRAQ! WRONG ON THINKING THEIR MILITARY SHOCK AND AWE WOULD DO IT! WRONG! ON NOT GOING AFTER THE REAL TERRORIST IN AFHGAN. WHO ARE NOW STRONGER! WRONG WRONG WRONG --have destroyed America on all fronts---who owns America??

Obama...country last!!!!
It's funny to watch you libs masturbating each other. Your American hating, Marxist candiate is the one who is the joke. A cocaine user, with no major accomplishments, a resume as thin as his love for this country. Biden and Hilary both said he has no experience.. oh wait that was 8 or 9 months ago. That's right he gained all his experience CAMPAIGNING since then. Now he really can lead the country. Yeah that's right, he's more experienced because he runs around as an empty suit, spitting out crap on a teleprompter fed to him from old CLinton hacks.. Otherwise it's the uh, uh, uh, utter machine... LOL.
Attended church for 20 years with other radicals who hate America. All you stupid libs drinking the Kool Aid listening to every word, mouth agape... Oh he's so unique, he has such new ideas...LOL Uber libs who want to become European, understand that real Americans will show up at the polls and erase you lib medaia inflated 4-5 % advantage in the cuurent polls. The Dems have created Obama, he is not real. Geraldine Ferraro said it all......the rest has just been a stage show

McCain's brand was his honesty, courage and decency. I had my concerns when he chose the nominee of the rabid right instead of, Joe Liebernman, his preferred Vice Presidential nominee, that hose values that were essential to his brand were being compromised.
Now it is confirmed. McCain has sold his soul to the disgraceful, corrupt, extreme right of the Republican machine. He is now OWNED by Cheney, Gingrich and Rove.
Rather sell my soul to any piece of filth that can help me win than maintain any scerrick of integrity - that seems to be his new motto.
Well, if you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas.
If we are going top descend into a bout of McCarthyist guilt by association, I would be much more worried by the rubbish that now seems to own McCain than some loose associations Obama has had in the past - a guy who abused public office by blowing a CIA agents cover and putting her life at risk for political gain!!!!
McCain = McSlime. You've lost my respect and support forever Senator McCain!!!!!!!!

And Palin thinks she can fool smart Americans, eh? Which smart voter doesn't realize that, until Palin became McCain's VP choice, her husband and her son were both in the revolution to get Alaska separated from the United States, just for a bigger share of Alaska's oil wealth. Who doesn't know that McCain was so desperate for the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES TO CONTROL OVER OUR PORTS? Who doesn't know that the McCain Camp is strongly immersed by helpers who believe that Israel should face Amageddon so that Israelis, unprepared to accept their radical Amageddon prophesy, would be doomed to hell. The terrorists are among us... those sick warmongers who believe all Americans should be their robots, marching to their reckless wars to get rid of those who don't accept their CULT FAITH!
Americans should unite and do the right thing... bring peace to the world without using the same Hitler ideology and tactics of causing genocide on those who differ in cultures and beliefs!

This lady just think America are so stupid.How ald is Obama,and as kid how he can know what a friend is going to do.she try to fear the American people with lie and bluff.American a much smarter than she think.MacCain and his follower got America with 6 trillion surplus.now America is minuse 12 trillion plus 35000 paid there life this is the issue what America need to vote for if they wont continoue with same policy or to change from MacCain lobbyist and special intress.

I read the AP Article on Bret Bart. The writter added a little cusion to the truth. Palin is correct. He is good friends with Ayers just like he is good friends with Rev. Wright. OBAMA is forerver covering his AZZ. The chicken Obama can't even get the courage to vote beyond present.

Oh well! My mother use to say:
"The worse blind is the one which does not want to see".
The sad thing about all this situation is that, after all is done (Obama wins), people is gone say: What happened? I was so sure!
He sounds so good!
To good to be true! That is what I say...To much talk...Who is him? Do you really know Obama? Two years in the Senate?campaigning?that?s all!
Promises?He says what people want to hear!
We all gone pay a very high price for this big mistake we (you) are getting is?
Open your eyes people!
Ready?get informed?Don?t believe in promises!
Look at the person! Their precedent?
Don?t you know that ?were there?s smoke there?s fire??
Maybe one day in the future him (Obama) can became a President, but not now?
We should be more prudent with our choices?
We leave in a very dangerous world?very dangerous?
God bless you all!

First, Palin can't even spell terrorist. Second, people need to understand that cost of buying health/dental care for a family of four is approximatley $20,000 per yer if the coverage is worth a crap. McCain's $5,000 tax credit for those who are forced to buy their own, means that someone who paid in for a company paid plan at about $5,000 per year as their contribution, will have to come up with another $15,000. So, to the family that makes less than $100,000, how would you like to come up with another $15,000 out of pocket.
McCain is pitiful and simply disgracing himself and his party at this point. Palin is pitifully stupid, she thinks debate is what Tooooddd puts on dehook to catch defish fer shur don't ya know.
By the way, did she ever get back to Katie Couric with those McCain instances of being a regulator?

Chronology:McCain awaits for Obama's VP pick,chooses a woman which is a token thinking he can get women to support the womenhood,most women did not fall for this gimmick pick, some sadly are blind regardless!!Country first i ask? i dont think so!!The media swormed like killer bees to hype and promote this token to the outmost zenith and gaze in amazement as how this token deliver a speech that was rehearse by Palin and written by well verse writers for her,MANY were fulled I was not!!!He who has nothing to show or offer prefers to hide. The McCain Campaign have protected her since day one and when they freed her the REAL SARAH PALIN showed up just take a look at the Gibson and Couric interviews. Atmosphere of relaxation yet she could not remember not even her own name.They call it to much information to swallow therefore she could not answer.The mere fact that she could not answer a simple question is enough for reason and common sense to kick in and reveal her unqualifications. Republicans want to make us believe that the Sarah of the RNC Convention and debate is the real Sarah, yet anyone that has been a student can recall cramming for a test, be ready to know most if not somewhat of what one has study pass with a C and the minute you leave the class room forget what you study or anyhting pertaining to the test. Likewise the real Sarah is the Sarah Palin from the interviews full of gaffes and the imposter, two face, coached,sportscaster is the one everyone seems to love.Rumors has it that the lipstick pitbull is on the attack,like her master will try on Tuesday's debate.The blind will forever be blind but 1+1 will forever be 2.Quick Facts: Economy in distress, Jobs loss every month,Less afordable health care,Unnecessary Wars,huge defecits and external debts.Logic point, if a wrench does not fit a peg, you change the Wrench!! McCain same ideologies and Republican what can we Expect ??? More of the Same!!! OBAMA 08

Here we go again. It didn't work the first time, accept on those toothless, brainless YouTube celebrities. You are a desperate bunch to think pulling out these ads in the final stretch is actually going to sway voters in your direction. Time for a new tactics the Oil Gang.

What's clear is that McCain and Palin would rather spend their time lying to the public than offering constructive work to begin to help the public. Country First, Straight Talk, what a bunch of hogwash. How insulting to voters.

Washington Post
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Published on November 29, 1989
You're John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears such an incredible resemblance to The Joker. Obviously, Keating thought you could make it to the White House, too.
He poured $112,000 into your political campaigns. He became your friend. He threw fund raisers in your honor. He even made a sweet shopping-center investment deal for your wife, Cindy. Your father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was cut in on the deal, too.
Nothing was too good for you. Why not? Keating saw you as a prime investment that would pay off in the future.
So he flew you and your family around the country in his private jets. Time after time, he put you up for serene, private vacations at his vast, palatial spa in the Bahamas. All of this was so grand. You were protected from what Thomas Hardy refers to as "the madding crowd." It was almost as though you were already staying at a presidential retreat.
Like the old song, that now seems "Long ago and far away."
Since Keating's collapse, you find yourself doing obscene things to save yourself from the Senate Ethics Committee's investigation. As a matter of course, you engage in backbiting behavior that will turn you into an outcast in the Senate if you do survive.
They say that if you put five lobsters into a pot and give them a chance to escape, none will be able to do so before you light the fire. Each time a lobster tries to climb over the top, his fellow lobsters will pull him back down. It is the way of lobsters and threatened United States senators.
And, of course, that's the way it is with the Keating Five. You are all battling to save your own hides. So you, McCain, leak to reporters about who did Keating's bidding in pressuring federal regulators to change the rules for Lincoln Savings and Loan.
When the reporters fail to print your tips quickly enough--as in the case of your tip on Michigan Senator Donald Riegle--you call them back and remind them how important it is to get that information in the newspapers.
The story of "the Keating Five" has become a scandal rivaling Teapot Dome and Watergate. The outcome will be decided, not in a courtroom, but probably on national television.
Those who survive will be the sociopaths who can tell a lie with the most sincere, straight face. You are especially adept at this.
Last Friday night, on The John McLaughlin Show, which features well-known Washington journalists, the subject of the Keating Five was discussed. Panelist Jack Germond suggested that three of the Keating Five were probably already through in politics.
So you spend your days desperately trying to make sure you will be one of the survivors. You keep volunteering to go on radio and television stations to protest your innocence. Last week you made ABC's Nightline.
Not long before that you somehow managed to get James Kilpatrick, the national columnist, to write a favorable paragraph about you. Last Sunday morning, you made it to national television again; this time on ABC's This Week With David Brinkley. You smiled at the panel with your usual studied insouciance. Sitting next to you was Senator John Glenn of Ohio.
Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and George Will were the interrogators.
It was a sobering scene. There you sat with Glenn, both sweating before the cameras, waiting to answer questions: two badly tarnished American icons.
No one forgets that Glenn was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. You won't let anyone forget that you were a prisoner of war. But you have played that tune too long. By now your constant reminders about your war record make you seem like a modern version of Arthur Miller's tragic failure Willy Loman.
Clearly, both you and Glenn sold your fame for Charles Keating's money.
It was a Faustian bargain. It was also a bad joke on the rest of us and a disaster for many old people who lost their life's savings to Keating.
The money was never really Keating's to give. But he never would have got his hands on it if you and the rest of the Keating Five didn't halt the government takeover for two long years while Keating's people continued their looting.
And now, the tab for the Savings and Loan heist must be paid from taxpayer pockets.
On Sunday, Senators Dennis DeConcini, Alan Cranston, and Riegle refused offers to appear on the Brinkley show. What must we make of that?
You, the closest of them to Keating and the deepest in his debt, have chosen the path of the hard sell. You may even make it out of the pot, but to many, your protestations of innocence taste like gall.
You are determined to bluff your way. You will stick to your story that you were acting to help a constituent and intended to do nothing improper. The very fact you attended the meeting makes you guilty, just as every man who entered the Brinks vault went to prison.

The McCain camp should really start to understand that Americans are not stupid! This latest stunt is more evidence of how pathetic McCain and Palin really are!!! Two words that should leave McSame stuttering:"Keating Five"
Get a Clue McSame, and some vitamin D while you're at it!

Obama's Acorn brownshirts seem to be out in force tonight defending their fueher. Kind of like what they did to Stanley Kurtz and Freddoso when they appeared on Chicago's Milt Rosenberg radio show to calmly and clinically expose Obama's shady past.
Obama's track record of busting open sealed court documents, disqualifying candidates with technicalities, accepting dirty campaign swag and massive coverups of all of the above must get through to the decent electorate who have been shielded by a comlicit and corrupt MSM that takes marching orders from financially strapped outfits like MSNBC's owner GE ,(saved by left-wing moneybags Warren Buffet) and Goldman Sachs (major donor to the dems in 07 and 08).
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been run by corrupt democrats for years, aided and protected by the democrat sleaze machine of Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Dodd, Frank, Emmanuel and of course the Congressional Black Caucus.

1 week ago Palin could not name one paper she reads...Now she's quoting the New York Times. Give me break. $100 bucks the NYT slams her tomorrow for misquoting the article. What a twit. We don't need an obviously dumb former beauty queen as VP.

I hope this is the GOPs attack line, because it's not going to work this time! I guess Jesus couldn't get elected in this country by these standards. Because as the bible clearly states, Jesus only "ASSOCIATED" with people that were unsavory.
The voting public wants solutions/leaders that are going to work for them to EARN a living, raise their kids, and live comfortable. The voting public knows that if their "associations" with classmates, college room mates, business associates, co-workers, neighbors, board or church memebers/leaders that may have been accused/arrested/or convicted of child abuse,sexual expliotation/harrassment,embezzlement,or any number of things would not make them guilty of any wrong doing by having known people that may have done things that are wrong or illegal. The voting public also knows that in this country we don't judge people by who they know but by what they know and what they do.
Lastly, didn't the McCain camp learn anything from the Clinton campaign. The majority of the voting public is tired of this!

She even tried READING, but did not get the facts straight.____Radical, McCain and Palin both have their kids in the military and are both RADICAL and will reinstate the DRAFT. When asked about this a month ago, McCain said he agreed to the DRAFT.

M, There are a lot of people poisoning the young minds of Americans in our colleges. Besides Ayers, Angela Davis, a well-known communist activist and others. This is why so many of you have these left wing ideas. I cannot understand why it happened but our freedom of speech allows such anti-Americans get into places of power. Obama will be the ultimate such person. I am old and will be gone soon, but God help the rest of you. I believe that boomers will be the first generation to be euthanized by the state against their will. If you can kill babies so easily, it would be easier to kill an old person. This is being done in the Netherlands now. I am so grateful to have lived in the best of times and not have to look forward to what is coming. I think Obama is the catalyst. The Dems have been hoodwinked into all of this. I think so many of them have no idea what has happened to their party including some of those in Congress. I think Biden is one of those innocents and was chosen because he is not too bright and is gullible (sp). This is going to be very interesting. I believe you will be fighting for your lives very soon.

Hey luvamerica. So I guess when the john Mcain created Sarah Palin "Maverick" of the north that was OK? She attended a very radical church and attended and supported a separatist organization that her HUSBAND was a member of. She was and is under investigation for abuse of powers in her state also. It is the hypocrisy that amazes me about all of you Mcain/Palin backers. You yell "blinded by obmama hype" out of one mouth and excuse the facts about Mcain/Palin out of the other.When the facts about Mcain/Palin are much more real and bigger than any of the ? guilty? by inconsequential associations of Obama.

To the Concerned Negro: OJ's goint to prison where he belongs for murdering two people. ONE DOWN AND ONE TO GO.
Its about time somebody started talking about what the MUSLIM RADICAL IS ALL ABOUT. And, it has to be a woman to boot. Way to go Sarah!

Sarah Palin is a complete newcomer to the US and the world stage and therefore needs all the credibility she can gain. Yet she acts like a diva who has earned the right to ignore the press and bend facts at will. Her ?I?ll get back to ya on that? belies ignorance, lack of knowledge and lack of substance. She is so completely unqualified to be President or VP that her criticism of Obama is a joke. In fact I can?t even take her candidacy seriously anymore. OK, OK, I get it. She was hired to be a cheerleader for McCain?s who is boring and oratorically challenged. The only problem is I keep expecting to hear breaking news that Palin?s pick was all a joke and an announcement who McCain really picked for VP. Say it ain?t so John!!!!!

Let's see old Billie Clinton 1993 and the Dems and Black Caucus telling us all that everyone in the US should have a house....so let's force financial institutions to lend money to people who don't have enough credit. NINJA (no income no job or assets...remember fools!!) SO how do you do this, you offer sub prime loans, interest only loans etc etc etc. The financial institutions were FORCED to start offering these loasn by the socialists in this country. THAT WAS THE BEGINNING.. If you don't know these basic facts, stop posting garbage.Right, instead of just talking about the economy try to understand who's to blame. Barney bend over Frank, Chris Dodd etc.. It's the libs that put us in this mess to start off with. Both sides are to blame for not fixing it up sooner.

Ouch. How obvious is it that Palin is making a pathetic attempt to demonstrate to Americans that she can and does read newspapers (she even can remember the name of the paper where she read this particular story!) Pathetic.

I hear that Camp Obama is ready for anything and knew this was coming. Certainly no one is really surprised. They did this to Kerry and it worked. . but Americans can't be fooled twice. Fool me once shame on you. . fool me twice. . fool me. . ain't gonna be fooled again. LOL Bottom line is McCain can't win on the issues or on substance. That's more than obvious.

Mrs. Palin, Senator Obama is just as American as you claim to be. This is even a new low for you. Your comments prove that you don't have any brains whether your talking about national security, the economy and now this. When you lose, and you will lose, who will you blame? We all know YOU are never to blame.

Come on John Wayne McCain! John Wayne would never have done this.
According to the NY Times article, Richard Daley has also had contact with Ayers.
Does anyone believe Palin? All she seems to be good at is reading scripts on the teleprompter supplied by the McCain organization.

Palin is right. Obama hates this country and will seriously damage the country if elected . He is an idiot.
Palin is a bimbo idiot, just like the McCain followers, who like to use race, religion, and scare tactics to avoid discussing the real issues that has brought America to its knees under a republican administration. Birds of a feather always flock together.

I'm thinking $66 million in ads about Charles Keating and McPain over the next 30 days or so. Bury him. Screw it. One last middle finger to the Repugnantcans as we march down Pennsylvania Avenue on Jan. 20, 2009. Only one slimy associate of Obama and McPain, combined, has done prison time and that was Chuck Keating. Obama co-sponsored a bill that will prevent any other senators for pulling the same crap that McCain did back in the day.

I'm a Republican voter who is deeply saddened by this. I will not vote for John McCain now. I will NOT. Beat Obama on the issues! Not this way. Country First, my white ***. I don't know if I'll vote for Obama, but I WILL NOT VOTE FOR JOHN MCCAIN! Sad!

Well, I gues it's gloves off time. Sarah Palin Married to an Anti-american secessionist(terrorist?), corruption scandal in Alaska, cut funding to pregnant teens and the special olympics, fired a librarian who said she wouldn't go along with banning books, oldest son vandalized public school buses, oldest daughter knocked up at 17--still looking for the baby daddy?--- marital affairs. John McCain--broke as a POW and became a Viet Cong mouthpiece, had several marital affairs and left his first wife,keating 5,calling his own wife the C-word, Maverick deregulator.

It's about time! American needs to know the names of all the thugs that Obama has been and still is associated with - Ayers, Dorn, Alinsky, ACORN, Raynes, Dodd, Frank, Reverand Wright and on and on and on.
Can anyone name 10 reputable friends of Obama? No? How about 5 reputable friends and advisors? No? How about ONE? I didn't think so.
Go McCain/Palin!

Obama received over 125k in Fannie Mae Donations, "accidentally" gave 800k to the ACORN Vote Fraud outfit, worked hand in glove with convicted felon and slumlord ripoff artist Tony Rezko (bought his Chicago mansion with Tony's help at below market interest rate,--funneled millions in earmarks to his wife's employer and also his poker-buddy Larry Walsh, is merely the tip of the iceberg of this political animal named Obama. The whole state of Illinois with its headquarters in Chicago, is one gigantic vat of crooks, crackpots and brownshirts.

If you call a guy who can?t fly an airplane and wrecks it 5 times, gets caught behind enemy lines after his wreck, gives up vital intelligence to the enemy, supports failing domestic and foreign policies, nominates an idiot for his running mate a Maverick?then that is one title that I?d rather not have.
Politics looks more like a cartoon than ever before. God help this country.

I live in Chicago and worked for 11 years on the region's community foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, so I became quite familiar with how philanthropic institutions are governed and run. The Woods Fund of Chicago, on whose board Barack Obama and Bill Ayres both served, was similar to the Trust in being an ongoing source of funding for local nonprofits. The Annenberg Challenge provided funding for education in Chicago over a limited period of time. Obama and Ayres both served on that board as well. Members of such boards are named through a careful process, most often to recruit people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. They are not simply groups of people who "pal" around together. When you are named to a board of a foundation, you are expected to show care and due diligence and attend all board meetings. Thus you attend meetings with the other board members and make the wisest decisions possible in awarding grants to nonprofits. So, of course, Ombama and Ayres on occasion sat in the same room, as did the many other members of the same two institutions, which had on their board's many of Chicago's most respected civic and educational leaders. By that time, Ayres had become a well-regarded expert in educational improvement--an advisor to Chicago's mayor and corporate establishment.

I've read the article and if after "reading" that article Gov. Palin believes there's a connection. It says alot to her intellect and the desperation the McCain camp is feeling. Read the article!, there's no significant connection but if you're McCain/Palin who cares about the TRUTH...

Palin has every right to ask questions about Obama, and so do we,you know the voters. Like she said she's "only been at it for 5 weeks", we also need to know the truth .Would Palin like to tell us about the witch doctor from her church and what kind of influence he has over her? or the adulterous affair she had with Todd's business partner? The Enquirer was right about John Edwards affair, I smell smoke on this one.